appreciate

Other forms of appreciate

past tense

appreciated·

present participle

appreciating·

third person

appreciates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appreciate

What does appreciate mean?

appreciate means "recognize with gratitude; be grateful for". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appreciate?

appreciate has 4 syllables: ap-pre-ci-ate. The stress falls on "pre". In IPA it is /əˈpɹiʃiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for appreciate?

Close synonyms include take account, prize, value, treasure, apprize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of appreciate?

The recorded antonyms are depreciate, depreciate.

Is appreciate a common word?

appreciate is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appreciate?

95 words rhyme with appreciate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.